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« previous 1 Hartington page 2 Hulme End Manifold Valley next » The picturesque village of Hartington that lies at the south-western edge of the County of Derbyshire, within the Peak District National Park and close the River Dove, was made famous by Charles Cotton and Izaak Walton who together shared the piscatorial delights of fishing at Beresford Dale a mile or so, to the south of the village. Hartington Church - August 2007 Hartington Church is dedicated to St Giles, and was built at some time during the thirteenth century. Since then, it has had a number of additions. It was during 1858 that the church underwent a complete restoration. The building is cruciform in shape and contains three bells dating from the years 1636, 1637 and 1697. King Edward VII Coronation Memorial

Venturing back into the annals of history, Hartington is noted at the time of the Doomsday Records as being called Hortedvn. During the year 1203, William de Ferrers, who was at the time the Earl of Derby, was granted the right by charter to hold a market, and three-day fair at the Festival of St Giles within the manor of Hartington by King John. Alas, the market and fair are now just a distant memory.

Seen from the centre of the village, the photograph above shows the Charles Cotton Hotel, which bears the name of a famous writer who along with Izaak Walton (1593-1683) used to fish the nearby River Dove in Beresford Dale.

It is in this dale that Charles Cotton (1630-1687) build his fishing lodge in 1674, a small square building that still stands there today. Izaak wrote his well-known book, The Complete Angler.

The fifth edition from 1676 includes additional work by Charles Cotton. The road in this scene will take you to the hamlet of Hulme End, from where you will be able to explore the Manifold Valley Trail, once the former Leek & Manifold Light Railway as far as Waterhouses.

Now that the railway has long been dismantled, it provides cyclists and walkers with a means to explore deep into the very heart of this truly amazing countryside.

The Old Cheese Shop

The Old Cheese Shop is an attractive building constructed from the limestone, where it provides a local retail outlet for Hartington's world renown 'Blue Stilton and Buxton Blue' among a variety of other fine tasty cheeses. The Old Creamery which is nearby, has been making cheese since 1900.

The road seen here takes the visitor eastward towards the main route between Buxton and Ashbourne approximately three miles away. For a while, the village of Hartington was served by the Buxton to Ashbourne Railway line, formerly owned by the London and North Western Railway Company, where passenger and goods services were run from 1899 until 1954.

Even though Hartington was served by its very own station, it was actually two miles distant from the village, quite a long walk in the days when cars were a rarity.